NC has voted

John McCain, who already has enough delegates to lock up the Republican nomination, won North Carolina's primary yesterday with 73% of the vote. However the real story is that 27% on NC Republicans still find him unacceptable and bothered to go out to the polls to cast a symbolic vote against him.

This is what I did when I cast my vote for Alan Keyes.

In Indiana the results were similar with 22% of the Republican electorate going to the polls to show their displeasure with the party's nominee.

This rejection of McCain by more than one fifth of the Republican base comes before McCain's intention to speak before the National Council of La Raza, a militant left-wing America hating racist organization with ties to the Aztlan movement, has had a chance to become public knowledge.

I was sent a link to a post on VDARE which had this:

McCain told reporters, “everything about our Hispanic voters is tailor-made to the Republican message…I know their patriotism, I know the respect for the family, the advocacy for pro-life, I know the small business aspect of our Hispanic voters.”

A quick reality check:

Patriotism: Only 34% of Hispanics eligible for US citizenship choose to take the necessary steps to take it—less than any other immigrant group. Of that group, only a third of Hispanics who are American citizens consider themselves Americans first.

Respect for the Family: Half of Hispanic births in the US are out of wedlock.

Pro Life: Hispanics are 2.7 times more likely to have an abortion than whites.

Small Business: Hispanics make up 15% of the population and only 6.6 percent of all businesses.

Here is the question that I have. What is John McCain thinking? I know that there are some elected Republicans in the House and Senate who really are stupid enough to believe that Hispanics are a "natural Republican constituency". I place George W Bush into this group as well. Is McCain one of these people?

I can't believe that McCain is one of those people. In the first place McCain's major advocacy of amnesty and open borders has occurred in the years since his primary loss in 2000. Since that time his primary motivation for virtually all of his acts as a Senator has been the desire to harm the Republican party. If he really believed that Mexicans would flock to the Republican party if only given the chance then it is far more likely that he would have taken a position on illegal immigration to the right of Tom Tancredo.

I find it far more credible to believe that McCain simply believes that amnesty with a path to citizenship is the fastest and surest way to guarantee that the Republican party must either become a permanent minority or expel its conservative element (who McCain blames for his humiliating loss in South Carolina in 2000) and become a left-socialist party just like the Democrats.

The only other explanation is that McCain is an utterly delusional fool on the order of the man who claims to be a poached egg.